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san francisco is a world-class city. and when you visit any world-class city, one of the things that you are impressed with is transportation. as you supervisors, as i often say, you are here to represent. and when the tourists come and visit our city, many of them and many visit me - we are lacking a strategy, short-term and long-term to improve our transportation system. we can pat ourselves and say we did this and that, when we experience gridlock, buses not on time, we have to work together to fix that. thank you very much. >> any member of the public would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. the one thing that i would add, something that i am proud of and i hope that we can continue to do as an agency, focus on how the projects that we are funding are impacting each individual district so we have a better understanding of what is happening on the ground. and that we ensure that the priorities that you as supervisors have and the communities that you represent, of those priorities are reflected in t
san francisco is a world-class city. and when you visit any world-class city, one of the things that you are impressed with is transportation. as you supervisors, as i often say, you are here to represent. and when the tourists come and visit our city, many of them and many visit me - we are lacking a strategy, short-term and long-term to improve our transportation system. we can pat ourselves and say we did this and that, when we experience gridlock, buses not on time, we have to work together...
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that is a population in san francisco specially that participated in the various wars. at one time unbeknownst to you, if you were a veteran you could ride free in san francisco. many of you are not paying attention to the demographics. if in the southeast sector we have 10 million dollars coming down the pipeline and you guys have no clue as to who really deserves to be helped, then something is really missing. again and again we will come here. and tell you that we lack affordable housing. but maybe what has not been make year to you folks who represent our 11 district is that on the watch of some of you all, thousands and thousands of rental units have vanished. it's for you to figure it out. i read an article about it. i am going to support scott wiener to be a vice chair because the chair has said that he finds something in him, experience, and together they could work for the betterment of our city. again pay attention to the demographics. thank you very much. >> any other members of the public who would like to comment? seeing none we will close public comment. (
that is a population in san francisco specially that participated in the various wars. at one time unbeknownst to you, if you were a veteran you could ride free in san francisco. many of you are not paying attention to the demographics. if in the southeast sector we have 10 million dollars coming down the pipeline and you guys have no clue as to who really deserves to be helped, then something is really missing. again and again we will come here. and tell you that we lack affordable housing....
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we are proud of the work in san francisco. we respectfully request that you denied this appeal. >> any questions? any members of the public who wish to speak in behalf of the real party of interest? okay. if not, let me ask the appellant if you could please step back up for up to three minutes for a rebuttal. >> we have met and we talked several times to work something out. the fact of the matter was there was an oral agreement between me and danny, another they are the owners there is a breach of contract. they're trying to take that back. i am supportive of the organization, and supportive of the project this is still a breach of an oral contract. if i am not able to get support on this i will go ahead and try to appeal the permit before mentioned. i work 9-5, this is a home that i work hard and bought for my parents. my dad is 83 years old, he had a stroke, i pick him up every day. and asking for compassion and consideration and understanding that this is a breach of contract. they came door-to-door to speak with everyone.
we are proud of the work in san francisco. we respectfully request that you denied this appeal. >> any questions? any members of the public who wish to speak in behalf of the real party of interest? okay. if not, let me ask the appellant if you could please step back up for up to three minutes for a rebuttal. >> we have met and we talked several times to work something out. the fact of the matter was there was an oral agreement between me and danny, another they are the owners there...
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this is the city and county of san francisco. while this appellant was speaking there were people over here having a sidebar conversation with a result that most do not have a clue what the appellant was saying. the appellant is adversely impacted. if you supervisors were not paying attention how can you do due diligence? this happens again and again. this year we are having an appellant who said, and she did participate in all the the liberations of promises were made to her but now the eleventh hour she has been shafted. you guys have some conscience. stand up and do the right thing. thank you very much. >> next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors my name is -- i fully support the comments made by the previous speaker. let's make it loud and clear. we are the ones that hired you. could you please give a favorable impression to the people back in dc and the east coast when they look at you like right now, because they don't believe some of the things i say. they could look for it themselves in person. since most of you
this is the city and county of san francisco. while this appellant was speaking there were people over here having a sidebar conversation with a result that most do not have a clue what the appellant was saying. the appellant is adversely impacted. if you supervisors were not paying attention how can you do due diligence? this happens again and again. this year we are having an appellant who said, and she did participate in all the the liberations of promises were made to her but now the...
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francisco out of san francisco taxes. for the business registration fees currently there are four fees ranging from $25 to $500. depending on your level of payroll expense. and as you may assume, most businesses just pay the $25 registration fee because they don't have payroll expense. but when we move to the new registration fees, starting in 2014, we now move to 13 different levels. rates will go up for every single business and they will have to report to us their gross receipts versus their payroll and that is what will actually be determining what they pay. so if you had a business where you had no payroll expense previously, but you were bringing in over $1 million in revenues because you were selling something on ebay or something that got you that amount of money, then you were -- then you will have to pay us a much different amount. that gets determined by your gross receipts rather than your payroll and you may also have the gross receipts tax to pay. speaking to the timeline that we're under, i show you the res
francisco out of san francisco taxes. for the business registration fees currently there are four fees ranging from $25 to $500. depending on your level of payroll expense. and as you may assume, most businesses just pay the $25 registration fee because they don't have payroll expense. but when we move to the new registration fees, starting in 2014, we now move to 13 different levels. rates will go up for every single business and they will have to report to us their gross receipts versus their...
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san francisco. we have the lowest per capita in san francisco. we don't have millionaires. we have working-class, middle class people. we are working san francisco in district 11. the residents of district 11 continued so much to the city. we are the ones who pay a portion of our income for robert attacks; we are the teachers, healthcare professionals, caregivers. we also have 5000 more kids on average in district 11 than in other places in san francisco. 5000 more kids. don't have the investment in education that we need to have. we don't have the opportunity for education and employment again people need. -- there is so much more to do. we are seeing great changes in san francisco. we are seeing great economic changes in san francisco. we have done a lot of work on the board to pave the way for these new economic changes. we have given economic tax breaks for the new companies starting up in the city; we have changed our business taxes well. a lot of these changes are changes that affect big busin
san francisco. we have the lowest per capita in san francisco. we don't have millionaires. we have working-class, middle class people. we are working san francisco in district 11. the residents of district 11 continued so much to the city. we are the ones who pay a portion of our income for robert attacks; we are the teachers, healthcare professionals, caregivers. we also have 5000 more kids on average in district 11 than in other places in san francisco. 5000 more kids. don't have the...
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born in blight california and came to san francisco in 1955 he seived regularly in the united states army and korean war and is the father of three children two sons and one dear and i send my condole lenses out to his family he was one of my sunday schoolteachers growing up and brang donuts holes to class and making the subject matter very interesting and enjoyable and i grew up with his grandchildren and it's a great loss that san francisco has suffered in losing mr. bradford and so iggs again colleagues i hope to close out the board in his memory and this is the memory of mr. bradford. >> thank you ms. cohen. mr. chu. >>? mr. campos, thank you mr. clerk i have a numb of number of items and the first is authorizing the-off real estate for 17th and folsome street park project and i also have a memoriam for man we will spain rod drying guess and he was one of the district's most colorful andby loved artist and is with robert crumb influenced generations of cartoonists and not only in the mission but throughout the city and born in new york to an italian artist mother mr. rod drying g
born in blight california and came to san francisco in 1955 he seived regularly in the united states army and korean war and is the father of three children two sons and one dear and i send my condole lenses out to his family he was one of my sunday schoolteachers growing up and brang donuts holes to class and making the subject matter very interesting and enjoyable and i grew up with his grandchildren and it's a great loss that san francisco has suffered in losing mr. bradford and so iggs...
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and an additional i think 100 at san francisco state. so, there is some limited funding within the city college subcontract that will be going towards stipends, but they are just the professors would be developing project-based learning with the hopes the companies would provide the internship stipend. >> i see. project based learning and direct internships with some of the companies either with this grant or the tech companies would actually provide, okay. >> yeah. >> and when you said 100 sf students, these are currently enrolled sf state students that will also be filtered into the program as well? >> yes, participants that would be enrolling in techsf existing or the life of the grant. >> okay, great. i'm really excited to hear more and i will also speak with someone about the hearing and some of the things that i hope to learn as we move forward with this. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. why don't i open this item up for public comment. are there members of the public who wish to speak on item number 2? please come forward. see
and an additional i think 100 at san francisco state. so, there is some limited funding within the city college subcontract that will be going towards stipends, but they are just the professors would be developing project-based learning with the hopes the companies would provide the internship stipend. >> i see. project based learning and direct internships with some of the companies either with this grant or the tech companies would actually provide, okay. >> yeah. >> and...
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francisco residents or indicated they were not san francisco residents. these were some of the findings. this chart shows the choices that participants made when they created their budgets. the choices they made about investing in operations and maintenance. the dark blue bars show the choices about investments in transit operations and maintenance. the height of the bar is a percentage of respondents made the choice. 80 percent chose to increase the amount of investment in transit operations and maintenance. that was a clear direction. >> where they weighed the same? operations and maintenance? >> they were the same. street operations and maintenance. i operate this that perhaps the recent passage of street bonds, in prop aa, there was more satisfaction in the level of investment in street maintenance. >> do we have a sense of who were actual transit riders? >> we did not ask the question. i don't know. the map certainly, we did have somewhat more respondents from the central part of san francisco them from the outer part. just by the choices that folks
francisco residents or indicated they were not san francisco residents. these were some of the findings. this chart shows the choices that participants made when they created their budgets. the choices they made about investing in operations and maintenance. the dark blue bars show the choices about investments in transit operations and maintenance. the height of the bar is a percentage of respondents made the choice. 80 percent chose to increase the amount of investment in transit operations...
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for the last decade and a half, the residents of san francisco have been riding on equipment that they do not deserve and one of the most beautiful metropolitan cities in the country and you talk out of this beautiful room and building and you walk to the streets and see the equipment that the residents and visitors of san francisco is riding on, it is almost shameful and it needs to be addressed in a big way and all of the plans up there for the future of the railway, none of them include rest room facilitis for our members and our operators, we have over 50 locations that have no rest rooms and a lot of this funding should be addressing those issues as well. because, once again, you could put together all of these plans, in a blueprint, but if you don't have the equipment and you don't have the operators to move the residents, the riders and the visitors of san francisco then you have nothing at all. thank you. >>very much.. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak, please come forward? >> good afternoon, executive vice president of the transport union, local 2
for the last decade and a half, the residents of san francisco have been riding on equipment that they do not deserve and one of the most beautiful metropolitan cities in the country and you talk out of this beautiful room and building and you walk to the streets and see the equipment that the residents and visitors of san francisco is riding on, it is almost shameful and it needs to be addressed in a big way and all of the plans up there for the future of the railway, none of them include rest...
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the mayor crash the real estate market to make san francisco afford. again to elaborate on this the 2010 sentences showed low increase household and upper increase households finds one findings done by ted ebegans from the controllers office the economist wrote that the comiebts that create a job distribution are in the local serving sector of the economy which has largely declined in recent years and what is your plan to create wage jobs in industries to prevent the city's work class from being displaced for the newer upper increase jobs and the high-tech jobs financial and provision service cities? >>> thank you supervisor and i'm glad to here and i join you in the effort of using social media to community with our constituent. >> let me start by saying that we have come off of the worst economic downturn when i took office last year the unemployment rate was 9.6%. that has now changed to eight% since 2011 and that is growing at a 6.6% pace, there are still more than 32,000 unemployed san franciscoians which i find unacceptable and we must do better
the mayor crash the real estate market to make san francisco afford. again to elaborate on this the 2010 sentences showed low increase household and upper increase households finds one findings done by ted ebegans from the controllers office the economist wrote that the comiebts that create a job distribution are in the local serving sector of the economy which has largely declined in recent years and what is your plan to create wage jobs in industries to prevent the city's work class from...
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francisco, and the san francisco school district. i hold in my heart in particular the san francisco school district. my husband and my children are graduates of the school district and my grandchildren are beginning at lafayette elementary. thank you so much supervisor kim. this is been a wonderful, wild, and crazy ride. i started at the center 20 hours a week. as a landlady. we have two tenants, cross-cultural learning center, 2-5 year olds. and we have community music center, over 100-year old arts providing service to the city and county of san francisco that is outstanding. these 23 years of it just did mine. there have been many efforts to keep people in the richmond district and beyond good and viable services. we serve people from all over the city at the richmond neighborhood center. we work from schools that feed from all over the city. our staff are expanding. here today are several of our staff and several board members working hard in this transition. they did not know what they got themselves into when they decided to c
francisco, and the san francisco school district. i hold in my heart in particular the san francisco school district. my husband and my children are graduates of the school district and my grandchildren are beginning at lafayette elementary. thank you so much supervisor kim. this is been a wonderful, wild, and crazy ride. i started at the center 20 hours a week. as a landlady. we have two tenants, cross-cultural learning center, 2-5 year olds. and we have community music center, over 100-year...
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as you know, tourism is is a major economic engine for san francisco. in 2011 we had over 16 million visitors. about 40% of those are international visitors and they spent over -- almost $8-1/2 billion in our economy, generating over 500 million dollars in local taxes. these are taxes that the residents of san francisco would have to pay if it wasn't for the visitors doing that. it created over 71,000 darer local jobs and really had a major factor in our economic recovery. conventions accounted for nearly $1.8 billion or 21% of all the tourism revenue spent in san francisco and 27% of all hotel room occupancy. * our independent study shows that without the expansion of moscone, where losing dollars right now, over $2 billion has already been lost between 2010 and 2019, for groups that had to leave san francisco or couldn't meet here because of the size of our center. and history has proven the success. the moscone tourism improvement district that we passed four years ago generated a great partnership with the public sector and the private sector result
as you know, tourism is is a major economic engine for san francisco. in 2011 we had over 16 million visitors. about 40% of those are international visitors and they spent over -- almost $8-1/2 billion in our economy, generating over 500 million dollars in local taxes. these are taxes that the residents of san francisco would have to pay if it wasn't for the visitors doing that. it created over 71,000 darer local jobs and really had a major factor in our economic recovery. conventions accounted...
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the san francisco planning department was identified as the recipient of san francisco share of those funds which amounts to $2.3 million through fiscal year 2015 and 2016. the plan department will work with other city agencies including the t.a., the m.t.a. and the mayor's office of housing to develop a work plan guiding the programming of these funds. planning is here if there are any questions. thank you. >> thank you colleagues supervisor avalos. >> thank you chair farrell. just a couple questions, i know that typically i've heard that typically, funding for these planning services are generally done through our management agencies and wondering how many other counties actually use its funding through their client department? this is something more or less anomaly to what's typically done in terms of how we do our planning around these elements. >> so, this was a motion that was made at the m .t.c. and it was an item voted on by the full commission. i think san francisco as an anomaly is an -- >> by the full commission unanimously? >> i don't know what the vote count was superviso
the san francisco planning department was identified as the recipient of san francisco share of those funds which amounts to $2.3 million through fiscal year 2015 and 2016. the plan department will work with other city agencies including the t.a., the m.t.a. and the mayor's office of housing to develop a work plan guiding the programming of these funds. planning is here if there are any questions. thank you. >> thank you colleagues supervisor avalos. >> thank you chair farrell. just...
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meeting adjourned. >> you're watching quick bites, a look at san francisco foods. today you're in for a real treat. oh, my. food inspired by the mediterranean and released with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. the 56th annual armenian bizarre, this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much deliciousness here and i can't wait to share it with all of you. let's go. ♪ ♪ >> armenia, culture and cusine has had many cultural exchanges with its neighbors. today armenian food has food from the mediterranean, middle east and europe. >> this is san francisco with the largest armenian food festival and widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, los angeles. we have everyone here in the neighborhood. that's really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian. this i
meeting adjourned. >> you're watching quick bites, a look at san francisco foods. today you're in for a real treat. oh, my. food inspired by the mediterranean and released with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. the 56th annual armenian bizarre, this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much deliciousness here and i can't wait to share it with all of you. let's go. ♪ ♪ >> armenia, culture and cusine has had...